Quotes About Politics

The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.

Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development, this choice is a very clear one.

Scotland just isn't terribly Tory.

I'm definitely a Tory. My dad was a Conservative councillor, and I spent years as a child knocking on doors with him. I'm a Tory because I'm passionate about business and enterprise. But I am also a compassionate Conservative. There should always be a net through which no one should fall.

I'm not going to do anything that sees a Tory government be likely.

I'll be my own man and work closely with a Tory Government if it is in London's interest.

People will meet me and say, 'You're not really a Tory.' And I'll say I've been a Tory all my life - my politics have hardly changed. It is about making a society that is just and kinder to people.

Leaving politics was a good thing. I was spared a miserable Tory government where I might have ended up as leader.

Foreign writers - especially Germans - often feel that Shakespeare is really one of them, that he was somehow accidentally born in the wrong country. In much the same way, leftists sense in their bones that he was a radical, rightists that he was a Tory.

I'm not Tory but I do happen to think that the Government should be allowed to govern.

No-deal Brexit could be Boris Johnson's biggest deception yet - worse than the Boris bus or the lies that had him sacked as a Times journalist or as a spokesman by the then Tory leader, Michael Howard.

It was a bit of a surprise when I became a Tory MP. My friends said it was a stupid idea.

It's no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all.

I'm not going to do anything that heralds in a Tory government.

People in Scotland don't take too kindly to being lectured by a Tory Chancellor.

Tory governments are bad for Scotland.

Tory supporters are not spontaneously ashamed; they have been made to feel ashamed. British leftists fiercely believe they are right - in the sense of correct but also in the sense of just. Conservatives likewise believe they are right-as-in-correct. Yet Tories are less confident about whether their politics are right-as-in-just.

He kind of makes me ill, David Cameron. I liked the old-fashioned Tory - like Winston Churchill, who had style. But Cameron's like a new breed - computer-generated. I hate it.

Mental health is a case study in Tory failure.

The Tory Party only talks to Brexiteers. It almost demonises... It comes across as dismissive of those who are not.

Europe has been the Tory party's kryptonite for decades, sapping it of strength at key moments.

The right has to be more than the Tory party.

People in Scotland want the parliament but don't give a toss about the elections.

An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.